Decoding Innovation | Protecting Vision

Serving entrepreneurs, startups, established small and mid-size businesses, research institutions, and investors requiring expert legal advice and representation in intellectual property matters.

IP Protection Strategies

  • Strategic advice on the use of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets to protect and advance business objectives.

  • Guidance on protecting innovation and brand assets globally.

Patents

  • End-to-end patent services covering invention identification, patentability analysis, trade secret protection, and all phases of U.S. and international patent prosecution.

  • Managing complex patent portfolios and coordinating with foreign counsel on global filings.

Trademarks

  • Trademark clearance, registration, and enforcement, with full lifecycle portfolio management both domestically and internationally.

  • Clearance searches, filing and prosecuting applications, and managing renewals and enforcement actions.

Opinions and Managing Infringement Risk

  • Legal opinions on infringement and validity of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and other IP rights

  • Strategies for manage risk of intellectual property infringement in product development, joint development, new business ventures, investment, and litigation

  • Reviews of third party IP rights, including searching, assessing the validity and scope of third party IP rights

  • Guidance on designing around third party rights and reverse engineering

Dispute Resolution and Litigation Support

  • Evaluation of claims of IP infringement, validity, and ownership.

  • Pre-suit resolution of IP related disputes without litigation.

  • Consulting with and supporting trial counsel handling IP related claims.

  • Expert testimony on USPTO procedures.

Representation in USPTO proceedings

  • Ex parte appeals

  • Post-grant patent and trademark proceedings before the USPTO

  • Patent reexamination and reissue

  • Inter partes and post grant reviews

IP Transactions and Licensing

  • Counsel and representation in a wide range of intellectual property transactions and technology agreements.

  • Structuring and negotiating IP licenses and transfers, including patent licenses, cross-licenses, technology transfers, trademark licenses, naming rights agreements, and many others.

  • Handling ownership, licensing, and transfer issues in business transactions, bankruptcies, and litigation.

  • Conducting intellectual property due diligence for investment, financing, acquisitions, and licensing arrangements.

  • Drafting and negotiating software and IT agreements, including end-user licenses, master services agreements, consulting and development contracts, distribution agreements, SaaS agreements, support and maintenance agreements, and purchase and sale contracts.

Copyrights

  • Counsel and representation in transactions and disputes involving websites, books, music, video, movies, art, architecture

  • Advice and representation in disputes involving copyrightable subject matter, infringement, fair use, and reverse engineering of computer programs, file formats, programming interfaces, and other useful objects

  • Open source software

  • Software development and licensing